Find and Color Short Vowel Sounds

Understanding short vowel sounds is fundamental to strong literacy skills, it lays the foundation for their early literacy skills and paves the way for successful reading and spelling. These worksheets give students focused practice isolating vowel sounds in simple CVC words. The ability to recognize and differentiate between short vowel sounds helps children sound out words, enabling them to read new and unfamiliar words with accuracy.

Each page displays 6 pictures along with a choice of 3 different vowel sounds, children have to work out what CVC word the picture is representing and then color in the correct middle vowel sound for that word. For example, seeing a picture of a pig would cue coloring the "i" as the middle vowel sound in "pig".

Filling in missing vowel sounds reinforces phonics rules and reading readiness. With cute animals and objects, learners apply knowledge to decipher familiar CVC words. Parents and teachers can use the self-checking pages to assess and build vowel comprehension.

This engaging exercise promotes mastery of those tricky vowel sounds through interactive practice. Emerging readers will delight in using pictures and letter clues to identify the missing short vowels. The vocabulary exploration strengthens essential literacy foundations for spelling, writing and reading success.

Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children's Illustrator